Sophia Blackmore

Deceased Person

1857 – 1945

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Who was Sophia Blackmore?

Sophia Blackmore was an Australian missionary. She founded the Methodist Girls' School on 15 August 1887, and also Fairfield Methodist School in Singapore. She was the first woman missionary sent by the Methodist Women's Foreign Missionary Society to Singapore. She also set up a boarding home for girls, supported the early Methodist Straits Chinese Christian work and published a Christian periodical in Baba Malay.

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Born
Oct 18, 1857
Australia
Died
Jul 3, 1945
Australia

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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